Agency Reports
The secretary-general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead.
He died last night at about 11pm in Abuja, hours after paying visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa.
Group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari announced his demise in a tweet in the early hours of Wednesday.
Kyari said he died at about 11p.m on Tuesday few hours after delivering a speech to oil and gas stakeholders at the ongoing 2022 Nigerian oil and gas conference and exhibition in Abuja.
After the event, he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the statehouse alongside a delegation from the OPEC secretariat.
He was aged 63.
He described his departure as a great loss to his immediate family, NNPC Nigeria, OPEC and the global energy community.
